What is immigration?

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What is immigration?

• Immigration is the movement of people from
• one country or region to another in order to
• make a new home.

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What is an immigrant?

• An immigrant is a person who moves from
• one country or region to another in order to
• make a new home.

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Immigration to the United States 1820-2000
This chart and table show the number of
immigrants that came to the United States from
1820-2000. What three time periods experienced
the highest number of immigrants? Source of data
Immigration and Naturalization Service, US
Department of Justice
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• Important Note The maps used in this lesson are
  maps of the world currently.
• In the 1800 and 1900s borders/boundaries of
  countries in Europe changed several times. Some
  of the countries were larger in the 1800 and
  1900s than they are now.
• However, for this lesson we are using current
  maps.

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1820-1880 Main Sources of Immigration

• In this period of time almost 10.2 million
  immigrants came to the United States
• The main countries the immigrants came from were
  in Northern and Western Europe

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1820-1880 Main Sources of Immigration

• The three main countries that immigrants
• came from in 1820-1880
• Germany 3.0 million

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1820-1880 Main Sources of Immigration

• The three main countries that immigrants
• came from in 1820-1880
• Ireland 2.8 million

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1820-1880 Main Sources of Immigration

• The three main countries that immigrants
• came from in 1820-1880
• United Kingdom 1.9 million

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1881-1920 Main Sources of Immigration

• In this period of time almost 23.5 million
  immigrants came to the United States
• The main countries the immigrants came from were
  in Southern and Eastern Europe

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1881-1920 Main Sources of Immigration

• Italy 4.0 million

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1881-1920 Main Sources of Immigration

• Austria Hungary 4.0 million
• (Austria and Hungary are now separate countries.
  The maps below show each of them)

Austria
Hungary
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• The three main countries
• that immigrants came from in 1881-1920
• Soviet Union 4.0 million
• The Union of the Soviet Social Social Republics
  (Soviet Union) was formed in 1917 and ended in
  1991. The 15 states of the Soviet Union are now
  each their own country which are shown on this
  map. They are Russia, Estonia, Lithuania,
  Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan,
  Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Armenia,
  Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldava.

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Foreign Born Population, Top Countries of Origin
1920
Source of data Bureau of the Census, U.S.
Department of Commerce
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Foreign Born Population, Top Countries of Origin
1960
Source of data Bureau of the Census, U.S.
Department of Commerce
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Foreign Born Population, Top Countries of Origin
2000
Source of data Bureau of the Census, U.S.
Department of Commerce
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Source of data Immigration and Naturalization
Service, US Department of Justice
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Source of data Immigration and Naturalization
Service, US Department of Justice